With edPUG following shortly after Valentines Day, come spend time with the second love of your life - PHP!

February 6th 2015 saw the eagerly anticipated release of Laravel 5. Laravel has been growing and growing in popularity since its first release in June 2011. As of August 2014, it is now the most popular and watched PHP project on GitHub.

Despite having Symfony components under the hood, the developer experience is vastly different to that of the Symfony framework with a focus on elegance, simplicity, and readability. Web Develovers code Symfony, Web Artisans craft Laravel!

Come watch the first hour of the "Laravel 5 From Scratch" tutorial series with fellow PHP developers and tell us your thoughts!